See, now you've got me thinking that in the Stargate-verse, they were never elected, and we need a reason *why* the timelines diverged there, and I'm thinking, Goa'uld prison planets, and possibly anal probing.

... oh, no, wait, I just remembered that I've already written XF fic where Dick Cheney gets possessed by the Black Oil, that would be retreading old ground. q: